Re: [PATCH v2] tracefs: Use dentry name snapshots instead of heap allocation

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:15:05 -0500
AnishMulay <anishm7...@gmail.com> wrote:

> diff --git a/fs/tracefs/inode.c b/fs/tracefs/inode.c
> index 86ba8dc25aaef..ad322e8f9e2ad 100644
> --- a/fs/tracefs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/tracefs/inode.c
> @@ -94,23 +94,14 @@ static struct tracefs_dir_ops {
>       int (*rmdir)(const char *name);
>  } tracefs_ops __ro_after_init;
>  
> -static char *get_dname(struct dentry *dentry)
> -{
> -     return kmemdup_nul(dentry->d_name.name, dentry->d_name.len, GFP_KERNEL);
> -}
> -
>  static struct dentry *tracefs_syscall_mkdir(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
>                                           struct inode *inode, struct dentry 
> *dentry,
>                                           umode_t mode)

I can't even apply your patch as it appears you based it off of your local
branch that applied your previous version of the patch.

Please rebase it off of 7.0-rc2 and resend.

Thanks!

-- Steve